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Its still months away from being released, but my next book is available for pre-order now so I'm excited to share about this picture book about a brilliant, holy, woman - Edith Stein (St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross).
I already liked her before I started researching and writing about her (she's my Edie's patron saint) but now I admire …
You know your family is fully invested in the kids’ classical education when there is a request for pasta Romano and Caesar salad in honor of the Ides of March. 😅
C.S. Lewis said somewhere that Protestants look at Catholics and see an overgrown jungle—”What is all this stuff?” Catholics look at Protestants and see a barren desert—”Where is everything?”
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“Pope has coffee” is the most consoling headline I’ve read in years
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Leave tomorrow for 9 days in Tashkent, 7 in Xi’an, and then 5 in Seoul. If you in any of those, please reach out and would love to go for a walk with you
We keep hearing that real wages are up. Folks like , , , andtheir ilk are committed to the idea that everything is fine. That never seemed right to me, so I started digging.
How much work does It take today to get the stuff we need vs 1950?
Healthcare: Our grandparents worked ONE WEEK for a year of healthcare. We’re working TWELVE WEEKS for the same thing.
Buying a house? Our grandparents earned enough in THREE YEARS to buy a home outright. We need more than TEN YEARS to afford a median home.
College? It used to take a few months of work. Now? More than a year.
Childcare? Went from two months’ wages to SIX months’ of wages.
